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July 1

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 1

  1. parse wiki tables to machine readable format
  2. Visual Edit rollout
  3. Account question
  4. Table not sorting
  5. Translation from German
  6. Dix Township Article edit war and conflict of interest
  7. Multiple issues on the page
  8. Inflation Template
  9. Missing Jeffery Hunter info
  10. Several technical questions/complaints
  11. Adam Harrington and Adam J. Harrington are 2 different actors. Then there is Adam Harrington who is a voice actor. 3 Adam Harringtons. And all getting mixed up on this wiki page
  12. Wikipedia's 'Legal Jurisdiction'
  13. Uploaded Pictures Getting Deleted
  14. How to contribute content to Wikipedia
  15. How does one revert an 'enable feedback' action?
  16. Simple Buttons on Account creation about articles that need editing.
  17. liketo know about the old school in marion county lamrion vocation school
  18. New info
  19. Where to go to express concerns of administrator's behavior
  20. I saved a page and cannot find it
  21. HotCat
  22. Inappropriate language and description of a phrase

July 2

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 2

  1. Rollback explanation summary
  2. Link to Spanish Wikipedia
  3. Image copyright
  4. Fuck you Wikipedia do you know how much struggle i went through editing an article and your deleting my hard and legal work.
  5. updating an author's page as his assistant
  6. amateur radio teachers
  7. Jacob Pitts is not recurring on Justifed- he is a cast regular .
  8. Visual Edit
  9. Table formatting
  10. New article edit window
  11. Jerry Yanyanutawa
  12. Outrage at under-utilization of a superb image
  13. Email notifications
  14. Maritime Telecommunications Network Page
  15. updated since my last visit--green!
  16. Odd lag
  17. Changing the name of an article
  18. Colin Carter
  19. Referencing multiple times from the same reference
  20. Pioneer Chicken
  21. Changing the name of a page with a name that already exists
  22. References disappeared + how to edit a reference
  23. Problems editing with beta versions?
  24. F-20 Fighter
  25. Cited reference now gives 404, I have the text open in my browser. What can I do?

July 3

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 3

  1. Visual Editor
  2. SEVERAL FIXES AND QUESTIONS FROM OLD SCHOOL HISTORIAN
  3. Question about VisualEditor.
  4. Delete account
  5. Incorrect photograph attached to my wiki page
  6. Unsigned IP posts
  7. Looking for old discussions
  8. Oneironaut
  9. Octacube
  10. can someone fix a vandalized page where data has been lost
  11. Deleting inappropriate or inaccurate content
  12. is it permitted to delete content since it is supposedly WP:Fringe, without trying to support this claim?
  13. Jewish Autonomous Oblast: formatting for infobox and flag image
  14. editing citations
  15. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MovePage&wpOldTitle=User:Launchballer/{{{1}}}&wpNewTitle={{{1}}}&wpReason=Moving+userspace+draft+to+articlespace
  16. Get logged out when I check my watchlist

July 4

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 4

  1. AATTV
  2. Paraphrase or explain with my words a source about a partnership?
  3. Adding comments to a particular page
  4. About hindi film article
  5. Tennessee Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church
  6. New Editing system
  7. Juris Doctor
  8. Is there a project page for would-be developers?
  9. Cyclotron image wrong
  10. Boone, NC

July 5

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 5

  1. Can someone plz find th950's movie Geeta Dutt song " O matwale matwale". Thanks.
  2. finding the answer to a previously submitted question
  3. Help with formatting glitch
  4. Want to Edit the Infobox
  5. Help for hire
  6. Babel template help
  7. German Kino Plus link points to malious code downlaod page
  8. Thomas Jefferson death subject
  9. Interlanguage page moves
  10. John Lars Zwerenz or John Zwerenz (Myself) Article on Wikipedia??
  11. I have tried repeatedly to edit my own bio and the changes will not show up.
  12. Brookbound
  13. How to get rid of "visual editor"?
  14. HOW DO I GET RID OF LANGUAGE SETTINGS
  15. Looking for old AfD discussion page

July 6

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 6

  1. Use of the word "claimed" in articles on living persons
  2. Paragraphs?
  3. Subject regarding a page on 'Joshua Sridhar'
  4. New topic
  5. How to mark a reference used multiple times (^ a b) as dead?
  6. Robert Stone (scientist) move to article namespace

July 7

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 7

  1. Want to make up for not having provided an edit summary
  2. Brackets in a plain link reference "breaking" the reference
  3. Adding interwiki links
  4. VisualEditor
  5. How did I trigger all-red text?
  6. Editing parameters in a template call
  7. Would editing my Wikipedia profile/bio violate Wikipedia's NPOV policy? Frank Sanello
  8. COVER-UP; DEAD BOSTON BOMBER?
  9. Question regarding registered vs unregistered editing

July 8

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 8

  1. Tried but failed to move a template
  2. Firefox and script errors
  3. Visual Editor
  4. Grievance against title upon searching 'Ishrat Jahan'
  5. The "Late" individual
  6. How on earth do I edit a citation?
  7. christianity
  8. Location
  9. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Thomas O'Toole.
  10. New User: Page Edit Suggestion on Sign-up Needs Work
  11. trying to create links on page about me - Michael Berk
  12. Two BLP's about the same athlete

July 9

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 9

  1. Italics in title
  2. BRICK WALL
  3. Edward Joseph Snowden article
  4. Quick Answer - Guild of Copy Editors
  5. Embarrassing Wikipedia edits
  6. How to know whether an article has been created without knowing the exact title?
  7. form F125-01 - Declaration for racial category
  8. Adding a reference which is a hyperlink
  9. Notable People
  10. I'm very confused about copyright
  11. Correcting template markup
  12. Update on submited info
  13. Category:Texas A&M articles with to-do lists
  14. A little mess on "Defiance episodes"
  15. Queen's Remembrancer
  16. editing of articles
  17. I am not sure if my article has been submitted!
  18. ODS Activation Step Failed
  19. Duxs
  20. IDP
  21. name references tab works intermittently
  22. Questions on how to edit (questions not answered on "Help" pages)
  23. (Tag: VisualEditor)

July 10

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 10

  1. uploading a picture
  2. Re: Milicent Bagot
  3. Wikipedia No Longer Honors User Preferences
  4. What should be done with this problem article?
  5. Policy on settlements.
  6. New text section vs. existing diagram
  7. What exactly is the difference between <ref> and {{Cite}}?
  8. Incorrect Name
  9. Mold
  10. Article about American Institute of Certified Planners is okay. Wikipedia has a warning box saying it appears to be an ad or a testimonial.
  11. Appreciating of Reference
  12. VisualEditor not working for me
  13. Help with old Afc submissions
  14. Help me optimize
  15. edit in 2013 protests in Turkey
  16. upload

July 11

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 11

  1. New article list?
  2. How to circumvent "This file is bigger than the server is configured to allow."
  3. Erroneous message not for me.
  4. CAPTCHA
  5. Copied material
  6. Plagiarism in Moody's Investors Service
  7. SHI International page reads as an advertisement
  8. CRTC web page
  9. Pipe character in citation
  10. Trying to change a logo
  11. unable to edit another user's talk page
  12. Tawan W. Davis
  13. Article is entirely a copy/paste.
  14. Please recheck my wiki
  15. How do you delete a user page?

July 12

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 12

  1. download all revisions of an article?
  2. Useraccounts for Wikimedia Foundation employees editing as part of their work
  3. page curation toolbar doesn't appear
  4. View History tab has suddenly vanished
  5. Adding pictures
  6. First ever article
  7. Question about a logo and how it appears on Facebook
  8. Need Disambiguation page for Ballast Point Park
  9. words with missing letters for crossword solving ,is this available?18:04, 12 July 2013 (UTC)~~
  10. Pran died
  11. Intitle and plurals
  12. Lowercase and italicized title
  13. Strange user right

July 13

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 13

  1. Disappearing reflist
  2. Correcting edit summaries
  3. After consulting Help, I still can't find out how to eliminate this "Text ignored" notice
  4. Unnamed section
  5. How do I credit a photo taken by Dante Liberatore that appears in Wikipedia article Frank Sanello
  6. Creating page: John Bodkin
  7. Frank Sanello
  8. Where do I start on a problematic BLP?

July 14

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 14

  1. Help searching
  2. Infobox Symbols
  3. In article image thumbnail
  4. External links no longer opening in new tab
  5. Searching for info on a cafeteria in the old typewriter building in Hartford Ct
  6. Regarding vandalism
  7. How do I revert to old editing method???
  8. Alternative Referel sources
  9. Problem with Men Without Hats template?
  10. Michael Berk
  11. Reza Aslan
  12. poems/songs
  13. template expansion caching
  14. Merge Commons/Meta account with a different name
  15. Follow-Up on Mars
  16. False edits in Cancer. Collusion? 3RR rule?

July 15

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 15

  1. I created Rayman School
  2. Alt text problem
  3. Cerebral Edema
  4. Extra space after template
  5. Copyright tag
  6. How to protect Wikipedia from those, who delete useful information only because it is not referenced, and insist on that deletions?
  7. Creating a new article
  8. Notable people in articles about US cities
  9. Now do I request adding the Metal band "Mortal Fear" from Toronto CA into the Wikipedia database?
  10. How to view the latest pending revision of pending change protected pages as an unregistered or logged-out user?
  11. Dav Pilkey
  12. Changes Please
  13. how to change my display name
  14. How do I fix a web page about me?
  15. Da'Ville Thomas Page
  16. Non delivery of my parcel booked from India to USA
  17. Images in Wiki Article
  18. How to make article edit also changed on google search page under the title
  19. I have showed the simple difference between electric and magnetic field
  20. No Image Available

July 16

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 16

  1. Mohammed Zahur Khayaam
  2. A wiki affiliated database that is for only certain viewers/users
  3. Need to correct/update the article on Bakarkhani
  4. Reversal of text
  5. Locally uploading files above 100 MB to English Wikipedia
  6. I need help from someone else to make a new article
  7. All Articles on a Specific Subject
  8. Minerva
  9. Request for re-review of article
  10. Request for review
  11. Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
  12. The Wikipedia shows a article about a Nazi person
  13. MJB Company (Farmhouse Foods) Help
  14. My agent's bio for J. Richard Burnoski

July 17

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 17

  1. wrong picture
  2. picture of Rhonda Sivarajah is off-center in the Wikipedia article Rhonda Sivarajah
  3. Elderwood Gang (Chinese Hacker Group) Page deleted
  4. Help When Posssibly Dealing With An Overly Agressive / Manipulative Reviewer / editor?
  5. Interwiki link required
  6. Why am I listed as active on French Wikipedia?
  7. How does X work?
  8. Can't see a user's comment
  9. Editing a box or table that doesn't have an edit button.
  10. This is an appropriate fair use right?
  11. Help! Another editor is threatening to block me over a good faith edit.
  12. Printing articles about mathematics
  13. Quickie aircraft
  14. John Langdon

July 18

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 18

  1. WATCHER
  2. Changing crest on Christian Brothers, Fremantle site
  3. How to add table rows in new Visual Editor?
  4. woody strode
  5. Having problems adding a wikilink (may have found a bug in the timeline code)
  6. Alleged malware link in the Laurie Penny article
  7. Germaine Greer
  8. Interwiki link required
  9. Change background color of Template:User citizen
  10. Class Size Re-Direct
  11. Allo Allo
  12. Article Suitability
  13. Table of contents taking up whole width of page
  14. Changing the color of a country on a map
  15. PRstore Wikipedia Entry
  16. Difficulties in start of video
  17. Xaverian High School

July 19

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 19

  1. "Some parts of the edit form did not reach the server; double-check that your edits are intact and try again."
  2. Adding a picture to the blue box
  3. Contents boxes
  4. infobox - how to create one tutorial
  5. Submitting & Registration
  6. Persian Gulf in arabic language
  7. Super-wide TOC
  8. Contents frame
  9. Notification
  10. Sean OKeefe discography
  11. Interwiki linking
  12. Meta menardi
  13. Jake Goldberg Picture
  14. I am having a problem adding a DVD release to the Little Einsteins DVD releases section
  15. Incorrect Picture in Article
  16. Freeport- McMoRan
  17. Duke alumni errors

July 20

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 20

  1. Interwiki merge
  2. Problem user? Not sure where to take this
  3. Hitler page uneditable?
  4. Searching image titles within a wikimedia category
  5. Proposing changes to results of a multiple use of a namedref?
  6. Picture thumbnail doing weird stuff
  7. Cite document - Unnecessary error message
  8. Issues about my Article
  9. Wikepedia states name in use
  10. Recent changes tag filter and visual editor
  11. Wide Table of contents
  12. redirecting a page
  13. Infobox in Almaguin Highlands article
  14. Saving addition to site
  15. Collapsible rows with a table
  16. Chrome hanging on edit
  17. Deletion of post
  18. Adding items
  19. Talk page notice
  20. Capitalization
  21. I am writing a new page and I'm having problems with the references format

July 21

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 21

  1. another interwiki link/merge required
  2. American Girl: Saige paints the sky
  3. Customizing diff tool for article revisions
  4. Fake article policy
  5. question
  6. Template:sfn
  7. help publishing an article
  8. Correction requested
  9. Uploading a modified image
  10. Request to review a draft
  11. Invisalign page
  12. another interwiki link/merge required
  13. Famous African American Families
  14. Photo for Article

July 22

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 22

  1. My writing and a "Point Of View" problem
  2. Locating articles without Interlanguage links
  3. Rollback topicon won't appear
  4. Spurious Orphaned non-free media emails ?
  5. My page Title
  6. Not-quite-an-article articles
  7. Share image between wikipedia
  8. F A Meier
  9. Interwiki link asymmetric
  10. Changing the case in the title
  11. Is oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com a RS?
  12. How to Add useful pictures in wikipedia article..???
  13. Formulas or equations
  14. Administrative law judge

July 23

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 23

  1. Family Tree Direction
  2. Editing
  3. Welcome link has stopped working for me
  4. Yearbooks
  5. image not displaying
  6. Line numbers in diffs
  7. I want to know about it why bahti are Social group of Himachal .It is also social group of Punjab?
  8. help with citing a reference
  9. Can crown corporations and portfolios have access to gcpedia namely Canadian Tourism Commission
  10. retired nascar drivers
  11. New way of editing
  12. I can't find my article
  13. Grouping many inline citations

July 24

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 24

  1. Second Article
  2. Wouldn't let me create an article
  3. Ok, I do not know how to cite sources at all and WP:RS and WP:REFB didn't help me at all!!!!
  4. Problem with a Wikipedia user who has undone edits by other users
  5. Path from proposed policy to policy
  6. how to use reference list
  7. Using equations with <math> - cannot enter subscripts?
  8. TO find the admin person or help me to edit the US Embassy page
  9. Page Updates
  10. Confusion on Date of Birth
  11. Mobile edits
  12. Uploading Logo
  13. Possible COI? Newbie wanting to check before proceeding
  14. Image donations
  15. Filtering random articles
  16. My Web Site URL
  17. Unable to create references
  18. Overflagging
  19. ad hoax
  20. ruby color

July 25

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 25

  1. Fosdick's "shall the fundamentalists win"
  2. Changing my photo.
  3. Trouble signing in
  4. Incorrect mobile rendering of List of Chocolate Bar Brands
  5. No Page view statistics for July 23?
  6. Homeopathy
  7. Please move
  8. Displaying more than 200 items on categories lists
  9. Bad table formatting in article
  10. Overzealous use of the {{cn}} tag?
  11. article still under creation and needs improvement
  12. fixed the issues the reviewer had with my article. How do I resubmit it to get approved and have the big boxes across the top removed?
  13. How to get an archived thread unarchived at ANI
  14. Proper venue for assessing contentious edits
  15. Speed Racer cartoon link to Anime and Manga -- the original US-Japanese culture download to the US re: Anime

July 26

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 26

  1. Page view stats down
  2. political science
  3. Chemical infobox
  4. Genomandering a political ploy
  5. how do i insert a web link
  6. Broken links
  7. Protection for article ?
  8. Article is no longer an orphan - how to get rid of box on page
  9. Wikipedia's blank page
  10. Mayor Michael Pizzi
  11. wessexhelicopter.co.uk
  12. Image issues at Adrenalin Quarry
  13. User:Stiarts erid

July 27

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 27

  1. Missing Oregon Person
  2. Copy of deleted article
  3. reference addition from an attachment file.
  4. Centering text of rows in sortable prettytables.
  5. Final legal notice
  6. I have opened a dispute but the other editor does not respond. What's next?
  7. Privacy of my IP address
  8. Hi, article recently created, can anybody check the spelling and if it's correctly categorized?
  9. GNU/Linux
  10. Adding to a page
  11. Templates - How To Change Present "Show"/"Hide" Buttons to "Open"/"Close" Instead?
  12. uploading photo on wikipedia entry

July 28

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 28

  1. Brotherhood of St. Andrew references
  2. New signature
  3. Urgent help needed
  4. Inaccurate information & Common misconception
  5. Editing chris tiu
  6. homepage
  7. Lost my edit toolbar,... again
  8. Editing an Article/Error Message
  9. Personal bias
  10. title of the article on me is in an unhelpful form of my personal name
  11. How to add a reference
  12. Bad multi-image or bad browser?
  13. New page patrol for user talk pages?
  14. video
  15. How can I avoid the dreaded "CONFLICT OF INTEREST" tag by Wikipedia editors - which I understand?
  16. page curation, temporary page move

July 29

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 29

  1. Credit Card on your front page.
  2. What versions of the Bible can be quoted?
  3. not able to open my favourite wikipedia articles saved in arabic text...text get converted to garbled text...this has happened after loading M.S op system xp
  4. WP:TAFI on the main page
  5. To kill a mocking bird the film
  6. Talk page of a redirect
  7. Tascott
  8. adding content to a subject
  9. Help replacing dead link with updated cite
  10. Legal question
  11. Article on Carol Friedman
  12. Requesting a page to be made
  13. Why Delete a Draft?
  14. Changing Username
  15. How to edit a navbox
  16. Non-free image
  17. My new pages?
  18. Easington, County Durham
  19. I can't find my changes

July 30

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 30

  1. Non Free image alert
  2. Screwdrivers
  3. sam smith/sportswriter
  4. Odd Image Discoloration
  5. contributed - forgot refs - would like to correct
  6. Change image
  7. Requirement for Diploma People freshers
  8. Removing references
  9. Should brief members of a band/group still be considered as 'former members'?
  10. Do we have an impersonation warning template?
  11. Add Logo to Company Page
  12. gallery issues
  13. Radio Voice of Russia
  14. Renaming article
  15. Hardware used by voicemail producers
  16. Bubbo Jones- Bubbojones (name) availability for an account
  17. Paintings I own
  18. Deleted Page for Richard Helm
  19. DENTAL SOFTWARE
  20. American Media Institute
  21. Copied and Pasted Error
  22. Need help!
  23. Request for help in amending info in picture panel (transclusion)
  24. I am very sorry
  25. Cannot find created page -Yaotzin Meza
  26. You have new messages! but no message
  27. Hi I could use you guy's help please
  28. Message alert

July 31

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Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2013 July 31

  1. Air Combat Information Group (www.acig.org) as reference for military aviation articles
  2. Open Gaming License and WIkisource ?
  3. Article review
  4. Music Rating link goes to wrong site
  5. Personal Life?
  6. ?
  7. I want to change my Username
  8. new page had deleted.
  9. Problems using hidden template
  10. we want to be included under "Ayurveda"
  11. CM Jason kirk
  12. New Article
  13. The Elder Scrolls III:Tribunal
  14. New article over redirect
  15. Resubmitting an article that was improved